On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:> Markus Rechberger wrote:>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:>>> Markus Rechberger wrote:>>>>>>> How many devices are currently supported by the multiproto API>>>> compared with the s2 tree?>>> The initial set of DVB-S2 multistandard devices supported by the>>> multiproto tree is follows. This is just the stb0899 based dvb-s2 driver>>> alone. There are more additions by 2 more modules (not devices), but for>>> the simple comparison here is the quick list of them, for which some of>>> the manufacturers have shown support in some way. (There has been quite>>> some contributions from the community as well.):>>>>>> (Also to be noted is that, some BSD chaps also have shown interest in>>> the same)>>>>>>> they're heavy into moving the whole framework over as far as I've seen>> yes, also including yet unmerged drivers.>>> Using the same interface, the same applications will work there as well> which is a bonus, but isn't the existing user interface GPL ? (A bit> confused on that aspect)>

I think it's good to have something that competes with Linux, I talked to someguys at that front too, and they seem to work close with applicationdevelopers tooAs for the em28xx driver I agreed with pushing all my code (in case oflinux, whichincludes unmerged independent drivercode from manufacturers) into their systemusing their license.

as far as I understood here it's that alot code is already availableand has been tested fora couple of years, a few guys are trying to run their own game sincethey already have "some" code, and the problem is that people would have to port yourdrivers to theother system without your support. We've seen the same issue with theem28xx a year ago,although this one is participating at the BSD and OSX project now too(which takes the samesource and makes alot more sence in terms of contributions).As soon as the em28xx code supports the mt2060 and saa7114 devices itwould be readyto go into the kernel again separated from linuxtv...